They explained yesterday in the NASA News Update, the department chief in charge for the upgrades explained it as follows

* Boot the rover with the Primary Computer to test the upgrade (no flashing)* If all works, flash the software in the Primary Computer and test* Boot the rover with the Backup Computer and test the upgrade (no flashing)* If all works, flash the software in the Backup Computer and test

I like this approach and also as usual, they offer you a way to go "there" anyway which saves you from false positives, never seen one though.

Also I like the alerts in the Webmaster tools as they send you an e-mail if you site gets infected, never happened to me but pretty sure is a good tool when you handle a lot of sites. I mean, how many webmasters actively run malware tools in their website?

You can actually enable cheats in SC2 and it will disable achievements. I think the program used for cheating allows you to get all the achievements in single and probably also in multiplayer which probably is what they are trying to "fight".

The current Mexican President doesn't want to get drugs legalized BUT he opened the debate on this matter. As a democratic country (take it or leave it) if people push enough, it can happen.At least it doesn't sound impossible, just really hard. But 20 years ago I wouldn't believe anything from my government, now at least I have hope (even if it is really small).

The summary sounds like "oh noes, privacy issues" but then the article says:

"The good news for those concerned about privacy is that it appears for now Canonical is just interested in tracking the users of OEM installations -- those PCs that ship with Ubuntu by default such as from ZaReason, System76, and Dell."

And again

"For those not wanting to participate in this anonymous data gathering process, they could always sudo apt-get remove canonical-census. "

It seems you are assuming the data collected by Google when an application checks against the DRM server is going to be used for other purposes. I haven't seen the privacy policy for this service yet so you may be true. Care to share more info?

KamuZ writes: It seems Yahoo! Japan is ditching their own search engine for Google Search. Also they plan to use the AdSense to serve advertisement. All this should happen before 2010 ends and the length of the agreement is not decided yet.You can see the original statement in here.(PDF, only Japanese).